Reign of Cyrus II the Great
559–530 BCE · prequel→historyPrimal Creation, the seven good creations, the onslaught of the Lie, mixture, and the world’s resistance
The full systematic account is later, while parts of the creation sequence and cosmic conflict have Avestan roots.
Zoroastrian sacred time; preserved systematically in later Middle Persian texts · prequel→historyLuke 23:43 places “paradise” on the lips of Jesus
The prequel treats this as a major Persian-language echo while distinguishing etymology from proof of direct theological borrowing.
First century CE Gospel tradition · prequel→historyThe Persian prequel ends outside Jerusalem
The story’s final sentence flows into Matthew’s arrival of Magi from the east.
Immediately before Matthew 2:1 · prequel→historyElephantine temple of Yaho destroyed; community appeals for rebuilding
Surviving papyri preserve Persian, Judean, Egyptian, and local actors.
410–407 BCE · prequel→historyCyrus captures Babylon
The Persian restoration becomes the central transmission hinge in the Asha Study Bible.
539 BCE · bible→historyA broad scholarly range often proposed for the historical Zarathustra
The date remains disputed.
late second–early first millennium BCE · prequel→historyCyrus conquers Babylon and restoration policies are recorded in several traditions
539 BCE · prequel→historyJerusalem and its temple restored under Persian rule
late sixth–fifth centuries BCE · prequel→historyAlexander defeats Darius III at Gaugamela
331 BCE · prequel→historyCommon dating of Daniel’s final apocalyptic form
167–164 BCE · prequel→historyGrowth of Enochic and other Jewish apocalyptic traditions
third–first centuries BCE · prequel→historyThe Book of Diesel openly backdates its literary voice and publishes the Seven Woes Against Daniel before the story
Modern era · prequel→historyThe House of Welcome/House of Song is contrasted with the House of the Lie
A morally differentiated blessed destination appears in the Gathas.
Gathic period · prequel→historyPersepolis Fortification Archive records workers, travelers, rations, officials, priests, and royal households
The tablets recover ordinary imperial life that royal narratives usually omit.
c. 509–494 BCE · prequel→historyParthian occupation of Judea and installation of Antigonus
The event shaped the political memory behind Herod’s Roman-supported kingship.
40–39 BCE · prequel→historyThe Persian saga releases the witness to Matthew
The fictional final line stops as the Magi enter Jerusalem; Matthew 2 becomes the next witness.
Immediately before Matthew 2:1 · prequel→historyThe novel’s Covenant of the Cord
Inspired by Zoroastrian initiation, but no source links Jesus to navjote or the kusti.
Age twelve · missing→historyHouse of Questions and early Magian instruction
Good Mind, Asha, Daniel, parables, and the Father beyond borders.
Ages twelve to fifteen · missing→historyHealing apprenticeship and development of parabolic teaching
The Gospel’s later themes are foreshadowed without claiming direct sources.
Ages sixteen to twenty · missing→historyJoseph’s fictional death and the crisis of paradise
The canonical texts do not narrate Joseph’s death.
Late twenties · missing→historyThe final journey east and the archive of failed signs
Jesus meets the final imagined survivor of Matthew’s Magi.
c. 29–30 CE · missing→historyZarathustra and the revelation of Asha
The starting point for Diesel’s long chronology: truth/order, moral choice, judgment, restoration, and the Saoshyant belong to the older Iranian religious stream.
eFireTemple chronology · bible→historyJesus and Saul enter different worlds shaped by Second Temple disputes
Turn of the era · prequel→historyArtaxerxes I grants refuge to Themistocles
The former Greek enemy later governs cities in Persian-controlled Asia Minor.
c. 465 BCE onward · prequel→historyYahwistic sacred precinct develops on Mount Gerizim
The form and date of the earliest sanctuary remain debated.
5th–2nd centuries BCE · prequel→historyJesus walks toward the Jordan
Luke 3:23 dates the beginning of ministry to about thirty.
About age thirty · missing→historyThe wilderness voice ends the missing years
The fiction stops before Luke dates the public world and narrates John, baptism, and Jesus at about thirty.
Threshold of Luke 3 · missing→historyIdeas move, texts develop, dates are contested
The timeline separates an event’s claimed setting from the period in which a text may have reached its final form.
Persian and Hellenistic periods · bible→